gold mine

noun

: a rich source of something desired

Example Sentences

The library is a gold mine of information. the estate sale promises to be a gold mine for antique dealers
Recent Examples on the Web The experiment is housed in the Sanford Underground Research Facility, which lies almost 5,000 feet underground in a former gold mine in South Dakota. Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, 20 Oct. 2022 The supply has not been used up, like a gold mine stripped of its last nugget. Peter Greene, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022 Much of Freeport’s spending is for a copper and gold mine in Indonesia, but the company recently projected that capital expenditures would fall in 2023. Amrith Ramkumar, WSJ, 19 June 2022 Elon Musk may have driven his own clown car into his own gold mine. Carl Miller, WIRED, 20 Nov. 2022 Evolution Mining wants to convert its Mount Rawdon gold mine in Australia’s Queensland state to a pumped-storage plant with one to two gigawatts of power generation capacity, depending on demand, after the operation winds down later this decade. Rhiannon Hoyle, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2022 Billionaire Warren Buffett is sitting on a small gold mine with his Omaha, Nebraska home as the Cornhusker State’s biggest city is poised to become the third-best-performing real estate market in the country over the next year. Laura Smythe, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022 The following year Oath Keepers guarded a southern Oregon gold mine whose mining claim owners were in a dispute with the government. CBS News, 27 Sep. 2022 The following year Oath Keepers guarded a southern Oregon gold mine whose mining claim owners were in a dispute with the government. The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Sep. 2022 See More

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Word History

First Known Use

1605, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of gold mine was in 1605

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“Gold mine.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gold%20mine. Accessed 7 Dec. 2022.

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